National Republican., 1887-01-10

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was the mother region from which all the
flowers descended. Prof. Wallace says the re.
the Arctic, including those animals that can
live only in warm climates Now thatArctic re.
gion which has been demonstrated by fora. and
as full OF vegetation and life as our Florida,
may be turned back to its original bloom and
glory, or 1t Will be shut up as museum of
visit, But Arctic and Antarctic in some shape
will belong to the Redeemer's realm.
What about other unproductive or repulsive
regions? All the deserts will be irrigated, the
waters viii be forced up to the great American
desert between here and the Pacific by ma
chinery now known or yet to be invented, and
as great Salt Lake City has no rain, and could
not raise an apple, or bushel Of wheat in a
hundred years without artificial help but is
now through such means one great garden. SO
all the unproductiye parts Of all the continents
half dozen De Lesseps will furnish the world
with all the canals needed, aud will change
the course OF the rivers and open new lakes,
and great Sahara desert will be cut up into
farms with an astounding yield of bushels to
the acre. The marsh will be drained of Its
waters and cured Of Its malaria. 1 saw the
Black swamp Of Ohio, its chief crop cniIis and
feveTs, but now, by the tiles put into the
ground to carry off tho surplus moisture. trans.
formed into the richest and healthiest of re-
gions. The God who wastes nothing, think.
means that this world, from pole to pole has
TO come TO perfection OF foliage and fruitage.
ror that reason he keeps US running
blazing down in, its timbers, and 50
many mock terrors have threatened to dash It
to pieces, As soon as the earth is completed
T divide up AMONG the good The
is not done. A kind father will not divide the
apple among his children until the apple is
TPs In be mee sSa Of ths n New The
and the promise of the Old Testament "iie
shall divide the spoil with the strong" the
world VIII be apporioned to those worthy TO
1t Is not so now. In this country, capable of
holding, feeding, clothing aud shelterlng l,200,-
g0, GOO people, and. where we have emily co.
not get honest work, and with their families an
apgre CATION of 5,000,6O0 that are on the verge
Of starvation. Something wrong, most cer-
apportionment. Many OF the millionaire
estates WIN crack to pieces on the designations
OF grandchildren, ana then dissolve into the
possession of the masses who now have an in-
sufiiciency.
What, you say, will become of the expensive
ana elaborate buildings now devoted to de.
bsssing amusements' They will become
and churches. The world Is already getting
disgusted with many OF these amusements,
and no wonder; What an importation of uu-
clean theatrical stuff VIC have in the last few
years had brought to our. shores. And pro-
fessors OF religion .patronizing such things.
Having sold out to tho devil, why don't you
body, mind, and soul, and withdraw your
name from christian churches, and say (:
know all the world by these presents that l
am patron OF uncleannes' and child OF
hell" Sworn to be the Lords, you are per-
But at last the tide has turned. and the
despis(rs of purity oyerdid the matter. A
foreign actress of base morals arrived intend
ing TO make the tour of the states, but the re-
naming decency Of our cities rose up and
conceled the contracts, aud drove her back
neither continent. In the name of Almighty
God take these denominations by the throat.
IL you think these oiienses are to 90 on for
ever, you do not know who the Lord is. God
these palaces of sin will become palaces OF
righteousness. They will come into the pos ies-
sion OF those strong for virtue and strong for
strong"
China and Africa, the two richest portions of
the earth by reason OF metals aud rare woods,
and lneShauslible productivcness. are not yet
divided up among the good because they are
not readyto be divided. Wait until ali the
doors that Livingstone opened In Africa shall
be entered and Bishop Taylor with his band
OF self-suppOriing missionaries have done
their work, and the Ashantees and Senegam-
bians shall know Christ as well as you Know
him, and there shall be on the banks of the
is now TO be found OH the banks of tho Hud-
son, then Christ will divide up that continent
among his, friends Wait until China, which
Is half as large as all Europe. shall have de-
veloJed her capacities for rice, aud tea aud
sugar, among edibles; and her amethyst and
sapphire, and topaz and opal, and jasper, aud
porphyry, among precious stones aud her
roseN God, and ebony and camphor, and var
nkh trees among precious w0ods and turned
up from her depths half dozen Pennsylvania
Of coal and iron, and twenty Neyadls OF silver
and Afiy Calilornias of gold, aud her 1--WE hun
dfed million of people shall be evangelical;
then the Lord Will divide II up among the
gCod.
II my text be not deception, but the eter-
nal truth, then tho time is coming when all
the farms will be owned by Christian farmers.